Post-bailout recovery government implementing remaining troika programme and executing clean exit. Economic school: centre-right Fine Gael with Labour partner, blending orthodox consolidation and selective public-service protection with a deliberate investment-climate / corporate-tax defence. Signature actions: programme-exit Dec 15 2013 (first euro-area bailout exit); Anglo Irish Bank promissory-note restructuring (Feb 2013, IBRC liquidation exchanging €25bn promissory notes for long-dated government bonds, effectively monetised via ECB acceptance); corporate-tax 12.5% defence through BEPS/Double-Irish discussions (phased out 2015-2020); 'water charges' controversy — metering introduced 2014, suspended Jul 2016 after mass protests and 2016 election pushback; Troika 'excellence-in- implementation' budgets 2011-2015; Action Plan for Jobs; Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (2014); Central Bank Macroprudential LTI/LTV caps (Feb 2015). Post Feb 2016 election FG formed minority with FF confidence- and-supply (May 2016, 'New Politics'). Left-right: centre-right. Popularity: FG+Labour 55.9% / 113 seats 2011; 2016 election FG 25.5% / 50 seats, Labour collapsed to 6.6% / 7 seats; 2016 FG minority held until Kenny handed to Varadkar Jun 2017. Coherence: high on bailout exit and fiscal trajectory; lower on water-charges regime reversal.
Policy-content fingerprint — how the framework codes this movement on its axes
Size of cash and near-cash transfer programmes (unemployment benefits, means-tested assistance, universal child benefits). Architecturally distinct from forced-saving schemes — see condition welfare_architecture.
unchanged · weak
Some welfare cuts reversed gradually post-exit; USC progressively eased.